Progress through 6 ages of technology, starting with steam and tame exotic matter in the end. Adds various game mechanics, a variety of new resources and big machines. Compatible with Krastorio2.
Steam-powered machines are a fun gimmick, but Industrial Revolution 2 and a bunch of other mods had that already. Heat-operated buildings such as refineries, however, are a novel thing that I have not seen in any other mod, make great thematic sense and are interesting to play with. Great idea!
Overall I appreciate any gimmicks that don't amount to just having more resource types and more intermediates, we need more mods like this!
tagging on to this, I agree that it's a nifty idea and I also think adding the solar-to-heat mod adds a lot of flavour. however, I kinda feel for balance reasons there should be some form of "heat storage" so that your processing can continue during the night.
